Welcome to our painting diary

We are two British artists living in south-west France. We paint on commission or according to our moods. We create paintings in watercolour, acrylic or pen and ink. Here you can see our work as it is completed.

Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Fran has recently completed this painting of hollyhocks which was taken from a view in our small hamlet. These flowers are blooming at the moment and seem to be able to grow anywhere, even out of cracks between pavement and walls. This is an acrylic painting on paper 40x25 cm.

Acrylic painting - Hollyhock Cottage

The next three paintings are small acrylics on canvas 20x20cm. We display them mounted on small easels which can be supplied with the painting at no extra cost.

Saturday, 17 September 2011

The first painting I did of this hilltop village in the Vaucluse region of southern France attracted a good deal of attention and was sold fairly quickly, so I decided to paint another version from the same viewpoint but using different colours. I still prefer the first version but the second one has a certain appeal, I think.